Catalog
10 Rupees New alloy
| Issuer | Central Bank of Seychelles |
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| Year | 2018 |
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| Thickness | 1.90 mm |
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| Reverse description | The stainless steel centre depicts a left-facing Aldabra Giant Tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea) in profile, rendered in fine relief against a background of diagonal stripes evoking the oblique lines of the Seychelles national flag. The denomination 10 RUPEES is inscribed prominently in the upper field, while the trilingual common name of the species — Aldabra Giant Tortoise in English, Tortidter in Seychellois Creole, and Tortue Géante d'Aldabra in French — appears in the lower field across multiple lines. |
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| Mintage | 2018 - - 5,000,000 |
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Seychelles introduced this bimetallic composition as a cost-reduction measure after years of the earlier cupronickel issues proving expensive to source and strike at the scale required for a circulation coinage serving a population under 100,000. The "New alloy" designation in the catalog reflects not a redesign but strictly the change in metal specification — the dies remained functionally unchanged.